Gadgets

It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.

VentureBeat is reporting that “Acer will launch Chrome OS devices at the Computex Taipei show, which will be held from June 1 to June 5.” That’s according to “multiple sources,” though it’s not to say that the “launch” will mean that the devices will be available for purchase in June. I have a feeling Acer won’t be the …

Skype’s on the verge of releasing a new version of its popular VOIP/instant messaging/video calling software to include support for group video calling with up to five people. You can take the beta version for a spin provided you and your fellow chatters have grabbed the same update.

Funny how something as simple as rounding down cell phone minutes may have the ability to ingratiate a carrier with consumers. Sprint’s looking to find out whether or not that’s true by launching what it’s calling “Common Cents Mobile” through a partnership with retail giant Walmart.

Depending on the sites that you frequent today or the newspapers you read, you might see a few ads from Adobe professing their love of Apple and Choice. The ongoing feud between Adobe and Apple over Flash vs HTML5 will go on for some time, but Adobe is making it clear that Apple and Steve Jobs have made a mistake in shutting them out …

Gateway has expanded its line of NV-series notebooks with the NV59, a 15.6-inch machine starting at $630 and decked out with an Intel Core i3 or i5 processor (depending upon the configuration), optional Blu-ray (staring at $800) and featuring a series-wide “integrated ‘social networking’ button that allows customers to access …

TechCrunch is reporting that Android 2.2 (Froyo) will bring with it built-in USB tethering and Wi-Fi hotspot features. So you’ll theoretically be able to connect your Android phone to your computer and use it as a modem or, better yet, use it as a little travel router to share your mobile data signal with nearby devices (you can set up …

AMD is finding its way further into the ultrathin, long battery life notebook arena with its recently announced 2010 “Vision” series CPUs. The line be available “in sleek and affordable notebooks that can deliver up to eight hours of battery life” while scoring “50% better than a comparable Intel-based system with Nvidia …

Put your credit card back in your wallet, purse and/or murse. There is no timeline or manufacturer attached to the Android tablet that Verizon is working on with Google. There’s really nothing surprising about this quasi announcement.

Yes, we get that everyone is scrambling to get a tablet out into the market to compete with the …

Looks like this whole iPhone 4 secret has gotten away from Apple full force, with another sighting coming from Vietnam. This one’s got three and a half minutes of video to go with it although just like the Gizmodo iPhone, this one appears to have been remotely disabled as well so we can’t see what the actual operating system looks …

We just got our hands on the Garminfone from T-Mobile. It’s slated to ship in June for $200 after a 2-year contract. We’ll post our initial impressions tomorrow along with photos. One notable worth mentioning now is that the Garminfone will most likely ship with Android 1.6. T-Mobile says they’re working on upgrading to 2.1, but for now …